Ebony is a hamlet in the civil parish of Stone-cum-Ebony, in the Ashford district, in the county of Kent, England. It is on the Isle of Oxney, south of Ashford. EBONY (St. Mary), is a parish, in the union of Tenterden, partly in the hundred of Tenterden, Lower division of the lathe of Scray, W. division, but chiefly in the hundred of Oxney, lathe of Shepway, E. division, of Kent, 4 miles (S. E.) from Tenterden. [1]
The place-name 'Ebony' is first attested in a Saxon charter of 833, where it appears as Ebbanea. The name means 'Ebba's or Ybba's stream'.[1]
In 1891 the parish had a population of 174.[2] In 1894 the parish was abolished and merged with Stone to form "Stone cum Ebony", part also went to Tenterden.[3]
- ^ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.159.
- ^ "Population statistics Ebony CP/Ch through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
- ^ "Tenterden Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
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